The pacifist section of that camp (or by some other specially selected polite expression) we must consider and call the petty-bourgeois, pacifist and semi-pacifist democracy, of the type of the II International and II [—]

One of our principal, if not the principal political task in Genoa is to single out this wing of the bourgeois camp from their entire camp, to strive to flatter this wing, to declare permissible from our point of view, and desirable an agreement with it not only commercial but also political (as one of the few chances for the peaceful evolution of capitalism into a new order, which we, as communists, do not greatly believe in, but are prepared to help put to the test and consider it our duty, as representatives of one power, in the face of the hostile majority of others).

To do everything possible and something impossible in order to strengthen the pacifist wing of the bourgeoisie and to increase at least somewhat the chances of its victory in elections; this — in the first place; and in the second place — to divide among themselves the bourgeois countries united in Genoa against us — such is our twofold political task in Genoa. In no way — the development of communist views.